A lost decade hidden in plain sight?
http://boingboing.net/2013/01/13/19a0s-collection-on-pinterest.html

Oh, my! This is rich in post-punk, retromania, hauntology, New Aesthetic. Simon Reynolds and James Bridle should be all over this. I'm not sure we give enough credit to the particular 5 years of change between 1978 and 1983. ISTM they were at least as significant as 1965- 1969. And like that period in the late 60s there was enough happening to fill 15 normal years.

I can't help thinking though that this is the thinking of a person of a certain age, born approximately 1955-58. 1978-1983 would have been when they were waking up and consuming large quantities of memetic artifacts before settling down into being a more responsible member of society. Ignore my first para, it just feels like that was a significant period because it was personally significant to people who were in their early 20s att that time.

"The propagation of historical information through memetic artifacts", indeed!

"The propagation of historical information through memetic artifacts", indeed!
Is this "A New Retro" or an Alternate "Retro-futurism"? Whatever it is, bring it back.

http://pinterest.com/kurtwurk/19a0-s/
http://boingboing.net/2011/10/11/mixtape-of-the-lost-decade.html

Can we say the same about 2008->2013?

ps. talking about myself again, innit.
 19A0s collection on Pinterest »
Kurt Wurk has collected a number of images from the lost decade. [Pinterest]

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